Tolerating Mistakes

How Do Popular Perceptions of Procedural Fairness Affect Demand for Transitional Justice

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ID6283404
AuthorsMonika Nalepa (0000-0003-2344-3405, Princeton University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume56
Issue3
Pages490-515
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022002712438343
OpenAlexW2155651724
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited44

How do perceptions of procedural fairness shape the preferences that citizens have for transitional justice (TJ) in postauthoritarian countries? This article uses original opinion poll data collected in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to investigate this question. It shows that differences in the demand for TJ are explained by how citizens perceive whether the TJ process commits errors—that is, whether the innocent are condemned (falsely convicted) or the guilty are exonerated (falsely acquitted). This is so even after accounting for threat perceptions of former autocrats and voting behavior. After comparing the ways in which citizens’ perceptions of errors in the TJ process shape their demand for lustration in the three postcommunist countries, the author discusses the implications of these findings for scholars of democratic consolidation, social psychologists, and policy makers designing TJ systems

Consolidation (business · Czech · Democracy · Economics · Perception · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Procedural justice · Sociology · Voting · Accounting · European and International Law Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Jury Decision Making Processes · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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